Category: USA News

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” while discussing the allegations aimed at White House staffer Rob Porter, network political analyst Anand Giridharadas said President Donald Trump had ”become the commander-in-chief of American rape culture.” Giridharadas said, “This week was a turning point because I think we’re starting to realize that Trumpism doesn’t merely tolerate sexual abuse, sexual abuse is a very apt metaphor for everything Trumpism is.” He added, “This is a rape culture presidency and Donald Trump has become the commander in chief of American rape culture.”

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich squared off against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and the deep state Sunday, for “abusing the rule of law” to advance their political agenda. Gingrich was asked about political bias within the federal government on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” and said the corruption and anti-Trump hatred went all the way to the top. “I mean, I think you probably have the president [Obama] involved. You have the Attorney General Loretta Lynch who you’ll remember met in…

President Donald Trump’s administration has decided that it is ready to talk to North Korea, apparently without preconditions. “The maximum pressure campaign is going to continue and intensify,” Vice President Mike Pence revealed to The Washington Post on his return from South Korea, adding, “No pressure comes off until they are actually doing something that … represents a meaningful step toward denuclearization. But if you want to talk, we’ll talk.” Before he arrived in South Korea, Pence stressed that the diplomatic and economic isolation of North Korea must continue after…

Kobe Bryant hasn’t said too much about anything but basketball, since retiring from the game in 2016. However, that all changed when he sat down for an interview with ESPN. Bryant recently spoke with former SportsCenter and current Undefeated writer, Jemele Hill. Bryant told Hill that he would have protested the anthem if he were still playing. “Yeah, I would have participated in it, for sure,” Bryant said. “I’m sure I would have gotten some flak for it. That’s fine. I think that Colin’s message was a very simple one….

Federal District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom President Donald Trump criticized during the 2016 presidential campaign, will hear a case against Trump’s proposed border wall project in a San Diego courtroom on Friday. The San Diego-area ABC News affiliate reports: The case, which is being brought by the state of California and multiple groups, challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s power to waive environmental laws in their construction of a border wall. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel is scheduled to hear the case on Friday in his San Diego courtroom….

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Haneke has slammed the ongoing #MeToo movement in a new interview, characterizing the campaign by women who have accused prominent individuals of sexual misconduct as a “witch hunt” that should be “left in the Middle Ages.” “This new puritanism colored by a hatred of men, arriving on the heels of the #MeToo movement, worries me,” the 75-year-old Amour director said in an interview with the Austrian news outlet Kurier. “This hysterical pre-judgment which is spreading now, I find absolutely disgusting,” Haneke said, according to a translation by…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked about Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) tweet calling for congressional hearings on the sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump, White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said she didn’t need a lecture from Gillibrand or anybody else. The President absolutely should be held accountable, and hearings should have already been conducted into these serious allegations. But the GOP Congress looks the other way in abdication of its responsibility to provide oversight. — Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) February 9, 2018 Conway said, “Those accusers have had their…

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Watters’ World,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called for a second special counsel to investigate abuse at the Department of Justice and the FBI. According to Gaetz, those agencies cannot investigate themselves. “My expectation is the people of America will win through the appointment of a second special counsel,” he said. “But that is going to require Attorney General Jeff Sessions to do his job. The FBI and the Department of Justice cannot investigate themselves. And the evidence we’ve uncovered shows wrongdoing at the highest levels…

U.S. Olympian Adam Rippon has ramped up his attacks on Vice President Mike Pence as the Winter Olympics continue in PyeongChang, South Korea. Rippon, the first openly gay U.S. Olympics competitor, has placed himself at the center of continued controversy over his dislike of the vice president based on claims Pence supported anti-gay policies when he was the governor of Indiana. Renewing his attack on Pence, Rippon posted a photo to social media of himself and fellow competitor Gus Kenworthy, with a caption taunting the vice president saying, “Eat your heart out,…